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Yeah, I read your response to GMForPowerGamers and it covered it nicely. Originally I thought you just meant redoing the stat array and not an entire character. Your method have some great benefits, including the players helping flesh out the campaign world. If I ever run a game where the...

There is a direct link to a working (at least for me) pdf in the comments for the article on Patreon.

If I wasn't interested in your opinion, I wouldn't have posted in a forum :-) Isn't that technically just another form of re-rolling until you are happy with the result? I personally hate having below 8 in any of the mental stats (and prefer at least 10 in INT and CHA). I guess I want to be...

I thought of doing weapons that way, but I am a bit of a grognard when it comes to some of the sacred cows of D&D, so I like the way weapon damage functions now. However, if my players started to always choose their weapons based on damage potential, I might change it to retain some variety in...

Thanks for all the answers guys. I find it quite interesting to hear the different views and it keeps surprising me how many different ways there are to play the game. In my games characters would probably be ridiculed more for using a flimsy-looking weapon like a rapier, than they would be...

Thanks for the clarification.

Those are all true too and clearly shows that both ways have their pros and cons. I think my main issue with the times I have played with rolled stats (both as player and DM) has been that it was normal to reroll bad arrays, but it wasn't really clear what constituted a bad array. Did you get to...

When I DM'ed Lost Mines my players bought the manor ruin in Phandalin and set up a adventurers' guild and I am hoping they will do something similar in our new campaign, so I definitely agree that castles and other money sinks can play a big part in both draining the PCs' coffers and provide...

For me standard array/point buy have several advantages over rolling stats and few drawbacks. 1. Players can make their characters without DM supervision (I trust my players, but if they rolled their stats at home, they would still have to run it by me, whether they could reroll a particularly...

Yeah, it could very easily be a forum thing and EnWorld even seems to be rather neutral ground. Other forums basically has nothing but threads on the best "builds".

Even when figuring out the math, the difference between shortsword and rapier should only be 1 hp per attack (if my math is right). Combined with various stat bonuses that really seems like a small difference to make anyone actually shun the character. But this is actually why I posted the...

The ongoing thread about scaling the number of off-hand attacks for TWF made me wonder how much weapon choice is based on a roleplaying concept for your characters and how much is based on potential damage output. I (and the players in my group) tend to choose weapons based more on what would...

If it is big, you just stab it more.

I imagine they are quite happy that people want sandbox adventures, just like the Princes of the Apocalypse AP they just released. At least that is the kind I was thinking of when I answered the survey.

One would assume that WotC has some people that know how to read a survey and any results gathered from it. I'm pretty sure they take into account, that those who even know about it, is a fairly small part of those who actually play D&D.

Mine too. We are three DMs in my group who each own a set of the core books, while the two that are players only, haven't even bought the PHB.

As the comments so far show, it is very different from DM to DM what is considered need-to-have on a DM screen. I don't need XP stuff, as I use milestone rewards, but I can surely understand why some DMs would like that info on their screen. I trust my players to roll the right dice and don't...

D&D never had the negative press here in Denmark that it did in the US and most people had no idea what it was. I think my mother was just glad that I got out of the house and socialized a bit.

I don't remember ever reading Salvatore describing a drow reloading a hand crossbow while holding something in the other hand, and Salvatore usually isn't shy about showing off their abilities. To me dual wielding hand bows (or rather reloading while holding two) always seemed ridiculous (and I...

Thanks for enlightening me.